ArticleEcology2018
Disentangling nutritional pathways linking leafcutter ants and their co-evolved fungal symbionts using stable isotopes.
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- Leafcutter Ant Farmers Prevent Loss of Edible Symbiotic Structures by Maintaining Allelic Diversity in Their Multinucleate Fungal Crop.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- You are what your fungus eats: diet shapes the microbial garden of a fungus-growing ant.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Article
- Evidence of cellular adaptations in a fungal cultivar promoting resource exchange with leafcutter ant farmers.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Mapping microhabitats of lignocellulose decomposition by a microbial consortium.Nature chemical biology · 2024Article
- Dietary potential of the symbiotic fungusApplied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
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- Production ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A fungal symbiont converts provisioned cellulose into edible yield for its leafcutter ant farmers.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Lessons From Insect Fungiculture: From Microbial Ecology to Plastics Degradation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- The multidimensional nutritional niche of fungus-cultivar provisioning in free-ranging colonies of a neotropical leafcutter ant.Ecology letters · 2021Article
- Chemical Gradients of Plant Substrates in anmSystems · 2021Article
- From Plants to Ants: Fungal Modification of Leaf Lipids for Nutrition and Communication in the Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungal Garden Ecosystem.mSystems · 2021Article
- Dances with dogs: interspecies play and a case for sympoietic enactivism.Animal cognition · 2021Article
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- Growth and survival of the superorganism: Ant colony macronutrient intake and investment.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Do Workers from Subspecies Acromyrmex subterraneus Prepare Leaves and Toxic Baits in Similar Ways for Their Fungus Garden?Neotropical entomology · 2020Article
- Using Nutritional Geometry to Explore How Social Insects Navigate Nutritional Landscapes.Insects · 2020Review
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Abstract
Leafcutter ants are the ultimate insect superorganisms, with up to millions of physiologically specialized workers cooperating to cut and transport vegetation and then convert it into compost used to cultivate co-evolved fungi, domesticated over millions of years. We tested hypotheses about the nutrient-processing dynamics governing this functional integration, tracing
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